Tag: thriller
The Assistant
French directing duo Christophe Ali and Nicolas Bonilauri are back with a new movie after an absence of ten years from our screens. For their return they have chosen a wonderfully tense and stylized very European thriller about a grieving mother exacting revenge for the death of her teenager Sebastian son who was killed in a car accident nine…
Spectre
As always the latest James Bond movie is exceedingly silly and outrageously excessively over-the-top and exactly like Daniel Craig himself, we swear this may be the very last one we will indulge ourselves in, knowing full well it certainly will not. Back in the directors chair for a second time, Sam Mendes makes sure…
Phoenix
As WW2 ends German former nightclub singer Nelly is shot as she leaves Auschwitz and her face is severely disfigured. When she arrives back home to a war-torn Berlin, her best friend Lene takes control and whisks her off to see the best plastic surgeon money can buy. With all her Jewish family now dead…
Room
A twenty-seven year old woman who was kidnapped, has been held hostage trapped in a lock-tight and sound-proofed 11′ x 11′ garden shed for the past seven years. However two years into her capture after being continually raped by her kidnapper, she gave birth to a son called Jack. The movie actually starts five years…
Stand
Opening with a quote from Nietzsche ‘there is also some madness in love, but there is is some reason in madness’ this timely narrative about how extreme homophobia is in Russia is a saddening tale about the price of being gay (and in love) in that country. Anton and his boyfriend Vlad are driving…
